US says it will increase pressure on Taliban if they don't...
May 11 ,2022
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By: SAM Staff
The United States will take steps to increase pressure on Afghanistan's Taliban government to reverse some of its recent decisions rest...
Taliban announce women must cover faces in public, say bur...
May 9 ,2022
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By: SAM Staff
The Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice has said the ideal face covering is the all-encompassing blue b...
China wants its investments in Afghanistan to be safer tha...
An Afghan worker works on the site of an ancient monastery discovered in Mes Aynak, in the eastern province of Logar on Nov. 23, 20...
Beijing-Nangarhar to Build 150-Factory Industrial Park in...
April 30 ,2022
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By: SAM Staff
The Ministry of Urban Development of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan inked an agreement with Beijing-Nangarhar private company on bu...
Anti-Afghan sentiment undercuts Iran-Taliban ties
April 30 ,2022
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By: Kourosh Ziabari
A handout picture made available by the Iranian Red Crescent on August 19, 2021, shows Afghan refugees gathered at the Iran-Afghanist...
US Left $7bn worth of Military Equipment in Afghanistan: D...
April 29 ,2022
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By: SAM Staff
Department of Defense of the United States said that they have left behind $7.12 billion worth of military hardware in Afghanistan as t...
Tehran accredits islamic emirate diplomat: Report
April 29 ,2022
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By: Arif Ahmadi
FILE: Iran Flag
Kabul, Afghanistan – The Islamic Emirates of Afghanistan in its bid for formal recognition established...
Pakistan, Afghanistan teeter toward a border war
April 19 ,2022
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By: FM Shakil
Pakistani troops patrol along the Afghanistan border at Big Ben post in Khyber district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on August 3, 2...
I am now one of millions of Afghan refugees
April 18 ,2022
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By: Hujjatullah Zia
Afghans stands in a queue at an Afghan-Iran border crossing in Nimroz, Afghanistan on October 16, 2021 [Majid Saeedi/Getty Images]...
Dark futures: Afghanistan's women reel from Taliban school...
April 15 ,2022
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By: SAM Staff
KABUL -- Anbaren, a bold and ambitious 16-year-old, was born in what was an age of optimism for Afghanistan. Her life plans were neatly...
China, by being good neighbour to Afghanistan, offers less...
April 13 ,2022
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By: Qian Feng
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi chairs the third foreign ministers’ meeting of neighboring countries of Afghanistan, in Tunxi,...
The girls I taught in Kabul were Afghanistan’s future. The...
April 13 ,2022
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By: SAM Staff
Afghan teachers protest against the Taliban’s closure of classes to older girls. Photograph: EPA
I am a woman living in...
Afghan resistance groups eye spring offensive
April 12 ,2022
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By: Lynne O’Donnell
Afghan resistance movement and anti-Taliban uprising forces take a rest as they patrol on a hilltop in Panjshir province, Afghanistan...
Deadline must be set to Qatar for Kabul Airport’s contract...
April 9 ,2022
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By: SAM Staff
Deputy Prime Minister and head of the Economic Commission of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar has tasked F...
China lends Taliban a slow but sure helping hand
April 8 ,2022
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By: Salman Rafi Sheikh
China is sending strong signals it will soon grant official recognition to the Taliban. Image: Getty
Even without formally recogni...
The Taliban are pushing females out of public life
April 7 ,2022
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By: SAM Staff
On March 23rd thousands of Afghan girls headed to school for the first time in eight months, kitted out in bulging rucksacks, neat...
The Ukraine invasion and Afghanistan’s current crisis
April 4 ,2022
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By: Isha Gupta
Afghan women receive humanitarian aid from WFP on December 9, 2021 in Herat, Afghanistan. Oil, lentils, salt, flour and rice were han...
Taliban bans poppy production, in move likely to further i...
April 4 ,2022
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By: SAM Staff
Afghan farmers harvest poppy in Helmand province. Photo: AP
Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban announced a ban Sunday on poppy pro...
Afghanistan misinformation after the Taliban takeover: Con...
April 2 ,2022
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By: Michael Kugelman
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The Taliban takeover of Afghanistan in August 2021 has produced...
China hints at recognising Taliban as legitimate Afghanist...
April 2 ,2022
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By: Teddy Nag
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, right, stands with Abdul Ghani Baradar, acting deputy prime minister of the Afghan Taliban’s...
In Afghanistan, ‘people selling babies, young girls to sur...
April 1 ,2022
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By: Ruchi Kumar
The UN World Food Program says Afghanistan is facing a 'tsunami of hunger' with it on the verge of economic collapse [File: Petros Gi...
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